I am not on your level but as a noob had same
experience. I have also planned to have in a
memory stick but have been caught up with
installing on DVD and frugal install on the HDD
but a thumbdrive would be cool.

I am in solaris now but that one is too big for my
machine. Fun to test things out.

aw, thanks, but I am not that smart. Sometimes an idea comes and it helps. I am still having a few problems. Like Windows wanting to run chkdsk when I boot into windows if I save a file into a NTFS partition while running Puppy.

Thanks for trying again and I'm sorry I didn't get back earlier but I have been busy on other things - like earnig some money!

I've seen some of your other posts now and everything points to a not quite perfect c: drive. You seem to have mastered the Lin'N'Win and it works. What seems to fall over is that your pupsave tends to get corrupt. Switching off your PC at the off switch rather than going through the menu-shutdown-power off computer may cause this but a disk drive with errors on it is the more likely option. If this is the case you will probably start to get the same fault when you use the CD to boot Puppy because it also has to pick off the pupsave file from the hard drive.

So far I have not tested Lin'N'Win with SP3 because I don't have it. I have not received any feedback either, although I am currently in correspondence with someone who is trying it out. I don't think SP3 would be the cause of problems though.

The only other thing to mention is that you should keep the pupsave file in the same place as the associated puppy_400.sfs and zdrv_400.sfs. If you don't then you must not use the psubdir parameter in menu.lst.

Ok, I've tried the Lin n Win New B tutorial and it works! I got it succesfully working on my old Acer laptop running Win98SE, and also have it installed on my main pc running WindowsXP. The thing I like about it is that it is easy to do, requires no partioning and doesn't mess up windows!

My only gripe is that it wont automatically install the driver for the cardbus Belkin wireless card - it doesn't even see it. When I try to manually install it, it still doesn't work. However, on my toshiba laptop, with a full install of Puppy on its own partition, it worked out of the box. I'm wondering if my acer has the old pcmicia slots rather than cardbus and its something to do with that?

I mean, compared to an ordinary "poor man's install", where all this stuff is on the hard drive.

For one, you can avoid touching your NTFS hard drive with anything but Windows software, which can appeal to the risk-averse.

But mainly, I'm posting this to point out problems with using upper case for the boot parameter keywords as in the examples for menu.lst. In at least some circumstances, lowercase is required. See
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31893

I commented on your PMEDIA thing but I posted in wrong thread.
sorry. Good that you reminded us of such details.
I will try to change my menu.lst to small pmedia_________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

The method described in this rather old thread still works with current versions of Puppy, specifically Puppy 4.1.2. Having seen no postings here for a year, and since there have been changes in the bootloading software, I thought this worth a note.

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